Barrel-raiser.



rRANKnEN-RY TKING AND DAVID r. AnBUnN, or EvANsvILLE, INDIANA.Y

` BARREL-RAIsERQ A Speciation'of lLetters;Patent.

. mtentea ocae, 1908.

' Application filed Marchi, 19o7`ser`ia1N0. 361,168.

To all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that We, FRANK H. Kme amiV DAvID F. ARBURN, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Evansville, in the county` of Vanderburg andState of Indiana; have invented a new and useful Barrel-Raiser, of.l

which the following is a specification.V

This invention Vhas relation to ,barrel` raisers and 1t consists In thenovel construe-jl after shown and described. j j The object of theinvention is to provide a tion-and arrangement ofits parts ashereinraiser or table for the use of coopers and` which is adapted tosupport the barrel duringV the time that the staves are being assembledand the initial hoops areapplied thereto.

The raiser consists primarily of a base upon which is erected a posthaving opposite recesses located at different elevations therein'.-

The table is provided With a stem having' shoulders which are adapted toenter sai recess of the ost and whereby means for ad-l justing theistance from the vtable to the base is provided. The said table isjournaled for rotation upon its support. f. The top of the table isprovided with disks `concentrically arranged and which are adapted tofserve as guides and supports for the endsof the barre j bling the same.Said disksor the working surfaces thereof may be increasedY in diameterby placin rings about the same in a manner as wil be hereinafterdescribed.` The table is provided with a series of perV` forations someof which are locatedfurther from the center of the table than others.`Reversible standards are provided and vsaid i standards in turn areprovided at their opposite ends with lugs adapted to enter the tableperforations. VThe said standard serve as truss hoop supports. In theaccompanying drawing z-Figure 1' is a top plan view of the barrelraiser; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same cut/onA the line2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation o f the u per portion of a postused in the device; an Fig. 4 is a plan view of the upper end of saidpost.

The barrel raiser comprises the base 1 from the center of which iserected the post 2.

Said post is provided at its upper endwithj the recesses 3 and 4 whichare atv different elevations. The stem 5 is provided atits lower endwith the lug 6 and the laterally eX-'` staves, during the course ofassemtending shoulders 7, 7. The said lug 6 is adapted to enter acentral perforation in the post 2 While the shoulders 7, 7 `may beseated in either the recess 3 or 4. The table 8 is journaled upon theupper end of the stem 5. "From the foregoing description it is obviousthat means for adjusting the distance between the table 8 and base 1 isprovided an'dethat the said table 8 may be rotated in a horizontalplane, irrespective of its vertical adjustment with relatlon to thebase. The

disks 9 and 10 are concentrically arranged upon the upper surface of thetable 8. The disk 9 is of greater diameter than the disk 10 and islocated directly upon the top of the table, while the disk 10 is imposedupon the disk 9. The table 8 is provided with the perforations 11, 11located at equal distances from the center and is also provided with theperforations 12, 12 also located at equal distances from the center, thedistance however,

from the center of the table 8 to the perforations l12 being greaterthan the distance from the center of the said table to the perforations11. The standards 13 are provided at their opposite ends with the lugs14 which are adapted to enter the table perforations 11 and 12 and formmeans for fixing the said standards with relation to the table. The saidstandards are provided with the shoulders 15, 15 which are adapted tosupport the truss-hoop 16. In order to increase the diameter of the disk9 a ring 17 is placed about the periphery` of the same and rests uponthe upper surface of the table 8. When this is done the diameter of thedisk 1() must be correspondingly increased, consequently, the ring 18 isplaced about the periphery thereof and overlaps the adjacent edges ofthe disk 9 and rings 17.

From the above description it is obvious that a barrel raiser isprovidedl for setting up barrels of different sizes and thatduring thecourse of assembling the staves the operator may turn the table 8 inorder to present any particular` stave or portion of the barrel towardhim and thereby avoid the necessity V` of passing around the raiser.

aving described our invention what we claim as new and desire to securebyLetters- Patent is l A barrel raiser comprising a pedestal havingmeans for longitudinal adjustment, a table j ournaled for rotationthereon and being provided With perforations located at differentdistances from its center, standards having at opposite ends alined lugswhich are adapted to fit snugly in saidperforations and adjacentshoulders the shoulders at one end being at a diierent distance from thelugs than the shoulders at the opposite ends.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own, We have heretosHiXed our signstures in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK HENRY KING. DAVID F. ARBURN Vitnesses JOHN NTEYEL,

